The National Service of Health and Food Quality (Senasa) of Argentina has expanded its list of agrochemicals that can be applied in the management of ‘minor crops’. Resolution 829/2018 establishes the extension of the use of products already registered for pest control for crops of lesser economic interest, such as fruits and vegetables. The objective […]
French government launched a public consultation on the draft plan Ecophyto II +. The Ecophyto II + plan reinforces the Ecophyto II plan, mainly by integrating the actions provided for in the April 25, 2018 action plan on plant protection products and a less pesticide-dependent agriculture, and the plan of exit of glyphosate announced on June 22, […]
The weather thus far this growing season in Brazil has been very good for soybeans and also for soybean rust development. Embrapa reported that there have been 55 confirmed cases of soybean rust in commercial soybeans fields in Brazil with 29 reported in Parana, 11 in Rio Grande do Sul, 6 in Santa Catarina, 5 […]
Brazilian farmers are taking advantage of strong cotton prices to increase their cotton production and subsequently their cotton exports. Farmers in Mato Grosso are planning to increase their 2018/19 cotton acreage by 18.1% according to the Mato Grosso Institute of Agricultural Economics (Imea). Farmers are expected to plant 28,800 hectares of full-season cotton and 908,900 […]
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2018/1865 of 28 November 2018 concerning the non-renewal of approval of the active substance propiconazole, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 (Text with EEA relevance) […]
Germany plans new conditions for pesticide approval and will seek an end date for the use of glyphosate -based herbicides, Environment Minister Svenja Schulze said on Tuesday. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and their SPD coalition partners agreed in February to limit glyphosate use, with the goal of ending use of products that contain it, but […]
Deputy Tereza Cristina da Costa, leader of the Parliamentary Front of Farming (FPA) of Brazil, was announced as future Minister of Agriculture of the Government of Jair Bolsonaro, informed the country’s president-elect on their social networks. Bolsonaro, whose mandate will begin on January 1, communicated his decision after holding a meeting in Brasilia with representatives […]
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2018/1532 of 12 October 2018 concerning the non-renewal of approval of the active substance diquat, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 (Text with EEA relevance) […]
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2018/1500 of 9 October 2018 concerning the non-renewal of approval of the active substance thiram, and prohibiting the use and sale of seeds treated with plant protection products containing thiram, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products […]